Music on the Hill presents ‘Sounds of Season’

By Stephanie Kim
| on December 7, 2017

WILTON — Music on the Hill will present “Sounds of the Season,” a traditional Christmas concert of the Jubilate Ringers handbell choir and Festival Chorus on Friday, Dec. 15, 7:30 p.m. at St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Wilton, 36 New Road.

Artistic directors David H. Connell and Ellen Dickinson will lead the concert, which will include both familiar and lesser-known carols and Christmas songs, among them works by noted English composers Ralph Vaughan Williams and John Rutter. The audience will be invited to sing favorite carols with organ and with bells.

David H Connell’s “A Star” is a hauntingly beautiful setting of poems by Unitarian Universalist clergyman Rudolph Nemser. The Jubilate Ringers will premiere Ellen Dickinson’s “Light in the Darkness,” an arrangement of twelve carols in four movements — Hope, Peace, Love, and Joy — for handbells, chorus and crotales.

Tickets are $25 at the door, $20 in advance; children and students are free. Tickets may be ordered online at musiconthehillCT.org or reserved by phone at 203-529-3133.